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High CVSS 7.8

CVE-2026-20495

Mediatek Mt7925 Firmware

In Bluetooth driver, there is a possible permission bypass due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: WCNCR00488300; Issue ID: MSV-7296.

What this means

Exposure
Exploitable with local access to the machine, with an ordinary user account and with no action from the victim.
Impact
An attacker can read sensitive data, modify or destroy data and take the service offline.
Weakness
No authorisation check happens before the action.
Likelihood
Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.

What to doFold into the next patch cycle.

Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.

Published
3 August 2026
CVSS
7.8 (v3.1) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.1% probability of exploitation within 30 days · above 1% of all CVEs
Weakness
CWE-862
Sources
nvd
References

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